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    Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist...
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  • Edward Cope may refer to: Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), English...
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    The Edward Drinker Cope House is a historic house located at 2100–2102 Pine Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1880, it was a...
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    Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) and Othniel...
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  • paleontologists noted for their intense rivalry, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. The plot follows the fictional protagonist William Johnson, a Yale...
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    its time, in spite of its poor fossil record. First described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1866 and later renamed by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1877, Dryptosaurus...
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  • Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology is a 2005 graphic...
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    arboreal, and more tolerant of dry conditions than D. versicolor. Edward Drinker Cope described the species in 1880. The specific name, chrysoscelis, is...
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    Dimetrodon (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    Dimetrodon were first studied by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in the 1870s. Cope had obtained the fossils along with those of many other...
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    Cope's rule states that lineages increase in size over evolutionary time. Cope's rule, named after American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, postulates...
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    Elasmosaurus (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    Edward Drinker Cope, who named it E. platyurus in 1868. The generic name means "thin-plate reptile", and the specific name means "flat-tailed". Cope originally...
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    Camarasaurus supremus (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    by the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1877, at the outset of the Bone Wars, a period of scientific competition between Cope and his rival Othniel...
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    Basilosauridae (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024. Cope, Edward Drinker (1868). "An addition to the vertebrate fauna of the Miocene period...
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    Coelophysis (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    type species C. bauri, originally given to the genus Coelurus by Edward Drinker Cope in 1887, was described by the latter in 1889. The names Longosaurus...
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    Archosaur (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    Archosauria as a term was first coined by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1869, and included a wide range of taxa including dinosaurs, crocodilians...
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    Agnatha (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Agnatha Cope, 1889 Groups included †Anaspidomorphi Cephalaspidomorphi (including Gnathostomata)...
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    Euornithes (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    Euornithes (from Greek ευόρνιθες euórnithes meaning "true birds") is a natural group which includes the most recent common ancestor of all avialans closer...
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    Nimravidae (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1880, with the type genus as Nimravus. The family was assigned to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Caniformia...
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    From the 1870s to 1890s, he competed with rival paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in a period of frenzied Western American expeditions known as the...
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    Desert rosy boa (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    (Lichanura orcutti) and the two species of rubber boas (Charina). Edward Drinker Cope described the species in 1861. The specific epithet trivirgata refers...
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    Hadrosauridae (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    minor" and "Ornithotarsus immanis" would come from the East, and Edward Drinker Cope led an expedition to the Judith River Formation where Trachodon was...
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    Chicago garter snake (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    native to the Chicago, United States, region. It was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1892, and can be found in the vicinity of rural waterways in northeastern...
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    Embolomeri (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    the end of the Permian. The order Embolomeri was first named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1884 during his revision of "batrachian" (amphibian) evolution...
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    Creodonta (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    other clades of predatory mammals. "Creodonta" was coined by Edward Drinker Cope in 1875. Cope included the oxyaenids and the viverravid Didymictis but omitted...
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    Percomorpha (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    165–223. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00932.x. Betancur-R, Ricardo; Wiley, Edward O.; Arratia, Gloria; Acero, Arturo; Bailly, Nicolas; Miya, Masaki; Lecointre...
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    Maraapunisaurus (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    been hired as a fossil collector by the renowned paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, in 1877. Lucas discovered a partial vertebra (the neural arch including...
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    Pantodonta (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    reconstruction of Pantolambda bathmodon Restoration of Titanoides primaevus Cope, Edward Drinker (1873). "On the short footed Ungulata of the Eocene of Wyoming"....
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    Diplocaulus (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    renowned paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1877. This species is only known from a small number of vertebrae sent to Cope by Gurley and Winslow. These...
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    Erythrolamprus epinephalus (category Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope)
    Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. The snake, which was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1862, is notable for its apparent immunity to the toxic skin of...
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    rivalry between early paleontologists Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. In Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, the Morrison Formation was a...
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